The CEO built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because the workflow has 118 steps and nobody wants to open it. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Jens, a controller

Build time:

3 hours 26 minutes

Built with:

Claude Code on the production branch

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Chen, who left

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 22x longer than intended, 1 users.